Understanding Health Policy

Baggott, Rob, Rob Baggott

• Publisher: Policy Press
• Year: 2015
• Print ISBN: 9781447300120
• eBook ISBN: 9781447312482
• Edition: 2
• Topic: Medicine
• Subtopic: Health Policy

In recent years the pace of reform in health policy and the NHS has been relentless. But how are policies formed and implemented? This fully updated edition of a bestselling book explores the processes and institutions that make health policy, examining what constitutes health policy, where power lies, and what changes could be made to improve the quality of health policy making. Drawing on original research by the author over many years, and a wide range of secondary sources, the book examines the role of various institutions in the formation and implementation of health policy. Unlike most standard texts, it considers the impact of devolution in the UK and the role of European and international institutions and fills a need for an up-to-date overview of this fast-moving area. It features new case studies to illustrate how policy has evolved and developed in recent years. This new edition has been fully updated to reflect policies under the later years of New Labour and the Coalition government. Although written particularly with the needs of students and tutors in mind, this accessible textbook will also appeal to policy makers and practitioners in the health policy field.

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Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• List of boxes
• List of abbreviations
• Preface
• one Analysing health policy
• two Party politics and health policy
• three Central government and health policy
• four Parliament and health policy
• five The media and health policy
• six Policy networks and health policy
• seven Health policy and the NHS
• eight Partnerships and health policy
• nine Health policy in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland
• ten The international context of UK health policy
• eleven Conclusion
• References